Edwidge Danticat Quotes
If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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If Paul Ryan wants to talk about the soul of America, I ask him to look into his own soul. Because if he is saying we have no soul, he certainly has a hole in his. He needs to understand that every single person in this country has a right to expect that their government will take care of them in their greatest need.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
